Quote of the Day: Reading the Constitution, Skipping the Slavery Bits

"As the Washington Post's Greg Sargent put it in his shot
at this very low-hanging fruit, 'The reason to include the superceded
text is to remind us that the Constitution, while a remarkable document,
was not carved out of stone tablets by a finger of light at the summit
of Mount Sinai. It was written by men, and despite its promise, it
possessed flaws at the moment of its creation that still reverberate
today.' He's right. It wasn't written on stone tablets by a finger of
light at the summit of Mount Sinai. It was written by Jesus, albeit
before he hit his stride."

--Gawker's Jim Newell,
on House Republicans' insistence on kicking off
the new Congress by reading the Constitution aloud--minus the parts
that, rather embarrassingly for the Founding Fathers, say slaves count
as three-fifths of a person when calculating a state's number of
representatives.